Zo Qadri has received some impressive high profile progressive endorsements like Elizabeth Warren in his race to defeat conservative candidate Linda Guerrero for Austin City Council District 9. Wendy Davis, Jessica Cisneros, Julie Oliver, and Mike Siegel are also backing Qadri.

Recently, KUT Austin published a piece on the District 9 City Council runoff between Zohaib “Zo” Qadri and Linda Guerrero. Specifically, the piece explores the divide between the two candidates on housing. Qadri blames the city’s rising rents and displacement crisis on the city’s land development code, and advocates for making it easier to build missing middle housing like duplexes, fourplexes, and small apartment buildings.

Guerrero, on the other hand, responded to KUT’s questions in a baffling fashion. She calls the idea that Austin has a lack of housing "really controversial" and denies that anyone "that's been displaced [is] saying 'Oh, this is great, there's 5,000 new apartments. I get to come back to Austin.' That's not happening."